Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu “threatened” him last year when he was fighting to unseat the veteran leader, in an interview published Friday. The Jewish nationalist Bennett became prime minister in June 2021, after he banded with blocs ranging from right to left to Palestinian Muslim conservatives to end Netanyahu’s 12-year rule. “Establishing the government was very hard for me. I knew clearly where I was going. I knew I was about to get hit with the mother of all battles,” Bennett told Haaretz newspaper. Bennett said he had been negotiating wi…